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author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Sat, 07 Sep 2013 13:57:14 -0400
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24 you. You can email me at ideas@aurellem.org. 24 you. You can email me at ideas@aurellem.org.
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26 If you want to use one of these ideas as your own and run with it, 26 If you want to use one of these ideas as your own and run with it,
27 please feel free. I'd love to hear about it if you do. 27 please feel free. I'd love to hear about it if you do.
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29 /There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about 29 #+begin_quote
30 getting credit/ 30 There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about
31 getting credit.
32 #+end_quote
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34 - test dummies :: why don't we clone encephalic humans and use then to
35 test /in vivo/ human organ systems and drugs? It
36 would be ethical as long as there are women who are
37 willing to host the clones, and it would be a
38 trememdous resource for studying the human body. I
39 see nothing wrong with it morally, since no one is
40 suffering, and it stands to save many lives throught
41 more advanced technology.
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43 - X-ray telepresence :: given that a doctor is operating on a patient
44 via telepresence, one cool things you can do is shine X-rays into
45 the patient to view the insides during real time. If the system
46 was coupled with a baysean model of the layout of the structure,
47 and the x-rays were only fired whenever the uncertaintity of the
48 model reached a certain threshold, then the radiation damage
49 and surgery risk could be minimized.
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51 - superfluid vascular system :: I wonder what would happen if you
52 replaced the blood in a human with a superfluid. What would the
53 physical dynamics be? Would the superfluid flow through the
54 vasculature, or would it ignore it and travel through the cells,
55 or something else entirely. Since superfluids need to be cold to
56 retain their superfluidity, how would the dynamics change during
57 perfusion of a superfluid, where the fluid gains and looses
58 superfluidity as it goes deeper into the body and is cooled by
59 superfluid from upstresm. In summary there are two things to
60 simulate 1.) replace all blood in human with superfluid
61 instantly. 2.) perfuse superfluid into human.
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32 - projective guessing :: I think that we read and see things by 63 - projective guessing :: I think that we read and see things by
33 makeing a really good guess about what we're expecting to see, 64 makeing a really good guess about what we're expecting to see,
34 and then searching for our guess in what we see. If it really 65 and then searching for our guess in what we see. If it really
35 doesn't match, then we start to make more guesses / analyze the 66 doesn't match, then we start to make more guesses / analyze the